Michael A Carver

On the Self-Regulation of Behavior

This book is a reader-friendly description of a viewpoint on human behavior which sees all behavior as aimed at attaining goals. A wide variety of topics are treated: ranging from goals, to emotion, to persistence and giving up, to living and dying. Both adaptive behavior and problems are examined. ...

Dilemmas of the Desert War: The Libyan Campaign 1940-1942 (Libyan Campaign of 1940-1942)

Having written acclaimed accounts of Tobruk and El Alamein, Field Marshal Lord Carver has used newly available first-hand historical resources—including the recently released war diaries and private papers of General Sir Neil Ritchie, the predecessor to Montgomery in command of the Eighth Army—to re...

Piqua (Images of America) (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing))

Images of America: Piqua not only examines the towns history through images, it explores the ways in which the community has commemorated and celebrated its dynamic history. From its roots in Shawnee, Delaware, and other Native American cultures to its role as an important post on the Miami-Erie Can...

The War Lords: Military Commanders of the Twentieth Century

In THE WAR LORDS, Field Marshal Lord Carver has assembled an engrossing series of short, detailed biographies of forty-three of the dominant military commanders of the twentieth century century, American, British, German and French: Field-Marshal the Earl Alexander, E.H.H. Allenby, Claude Auchinleck...

Perspectives on Personality (7th Edition)

Informative, yet engaging – viewpoints of personality psychologists today   Written in an informal, conversational style, Carver and Scheier engage students by helping them understand how various perspectives of the field of personality can apply to their own lives.   This book describes a...

El Alamein (Wordsworth Military Library)

In early 1942, the Axis powers dominated the Allied forces. Tobruk fell to Rommell in June and the Allies prepared to retreat to the Suez Canal. Disaster seemed immininent. But then began the battles that turned the tide against the Germans, the battles at El Almein. This text tells the story.

Painting in oil by the 5-color method

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1961. Hardbound, about 11.25 inches tall, 223 pages. Glossary. Dust jacket design by Klaus Grutzka. Illustrated in color and black and white; includes a color wheel fold out.

Twentieth-Century warriors: The development of the armed forces of the major military nations in the twentieth-century

Michael Carver Bar Carver

Field Marshal Richard Michael Power Carver, Baron Carver GCB, CBE, DSO & Bar, MC was a British soldier. He served as the Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) of the United Kingdom and thus...